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The most intuitive manifestation of the impact on James's popularity as a result of this incident is the results of the first round of voting in the All-Star Game poll. At the end of December, the league announced the results of the first round of voting for the All-Star Weekend.
Wang Chong again led the All-Star voting list without suspense, above everyone else, while Durant, who averaged 30 points, 8 rebounds, and 4 assists per game, was below Wang Chong.
In third place is the current Bulls leader, Curry, who averages 28+4+7 per game.
The chosen one, LeBron James, only ranked fourth in the voting, which is already a very high ranking, but it is a Waterloo for James, who has only lost to Wang Chong in the past.
It's just that his popularity cannot be compared to Wang Chong's; even Durant and Curry can now ride over his head, and his uncle cannot bear it if he can handle it! But James still endured and could not tolerate it.
The embarrassing behavior during the Christmas war has pushed James to the forefront of public opinion, and at this moment, he has no choice but to remain silent and low-profile.
Fortunately, this is only the first round of voting, and the second and third rounds will take place in the future.
Giving 10,000 steps back, even if James truly loses to Wang Chong in the All-Star voting, Durant and Curry still remain starters for the Eastern All-Star, and it will actually have no impact.
After the league abolished the separate voting window for centers, the competitiveness of traditional centers has significantly decreased; after all, in terms of popularity, forwards, especially outside players, are obviously more popular among fans due to their flashier playing style.
In the Cavaliers, in addition to Wang Chong leading the voting list, Irving and Pau Gasol are also on the list.
Irving ranks third among Eastern guards, although his vote count is far inferior to Curry's, who is first. However, the gap with Rose in second place is not large, and if the team works hard to promote him, it is not impossible to surpass Rose to become the Eastern All-Star starter.
However, in fact, apart from Curry, the rest of the Eastern guards have similar vote counts, with the second-ranked Derrick Rose, third-ranked Carrey, fourth-ranked John Wall, and fifth-ranked Dwyane Wade. Regardless of who ends up in second place, it is not surprising that they become the Eastern Conference All-Star starters.
The competition for Eastern guards is quite intense, but the forward position is actually more competitive; apart from Wang Chong, Durant, and James, from fourth to ninth are Cameron, Antonio, Paul George, and the two brothers, Howard and Gasol, who are quite competitive.
As in previous years, compared to the East, where competition is full and the volume is flying, the West is more subdued, especially after Kobe Bryant was also ruled out for the season due to injury. The West remains competitive, namely the thick-browed brother Anthony Davis, Paul and Harden from the Clippers, and Westbrook and Griffin from the Thunder.
No matter how you look at it, the stars of the West are completely incomparable to those of the East in terms of quantity and quality, and if the stars are completely unequal in terms of strength, the viewing experience will also decrease.
Just as the league was having a headache about how to resolve this issue, Wang Chong provided a very timely suggestion on his own behalf, which suddenly made the league officials feel enlightened.
Captain Selection System.
This system is derived from the rules of the 2018 All-Star Game reform. This All-Star Game canceled the previous East-West confrontation mode and changed to a captain mode, first selecting voters from the East and West through the All-Star voting to become the captains, and then the two captains select their teammates through a draft to compete.
This model is quite interesting; on one hand, fans can see a new mode of confrontation that is different from the previous East-West confrontation, and on the other hand, the captain selection link can also be turned into a live broadcast program, killing two birds with one stone.
For the current league, Wang Chong's strategy can be described as killing three birds with one stone, and it also solves the problem of the uneven strength of stars in the East and West that plagues the league.
Wang Chong's suggestion directly shocked the league, and they couldn't help but sigh that Wang Chong is indeed a genius; not only does he play well, but his business vision is also so sharp.
There was no need for much discussion, and the league immediately worked overtime to unanimously approve Wang Chong's proposal and publicly announced the news of the All-Star restructuring.
The East-West confrontation of the All-Star Game, which has lasted for decades, has actually been restructured, causing a commotion as soon as it was announced. However, after carefully understanding the new main game rules, fans in favor represented the vast majority.
The league's concerns are not unreasonable; the confrontation between the East and West has become impassable in the last two years due to the gap in star strength, and fans are also mediocre. If this captain selection system is carried out well, the two teams will have an evenly matched confrontation, which will be very exciting.
Of course, there are fans who oppose it, but it is only a small number compared to the number of fans who support or are neutral.
The league's restructuring of the All-Star Game, which has lasted for 15 years, has become a certainty. When fans learned that this restructuring was actually proposed by Wang Chong, they felt extremely admired for his ingenuity.
In fact, Wang Chong's wisdom off the court is not limited to this time, including his past investment in films to make a lot of money, and the fact that he can always choose potential players with good strength when recruiting and signing shows Wang Chong's outstanding vision and advanced perspective.
The Cavaliers' current record, up to Changhong, has once again proven this point.
With the end of the December schedule, the Cavaliers have unknowingly played 31 games in the regular season, and in these 31 games, the Cavaliers have achieved a record of 28-3, with a winning percentage of 90%.
After 31 games, it was expected that Wang Chong, who averaged 31+8+5 per game, and Irving, who averaged 20 points, 3 rebounds, and 6 assists per game, would perform, and it was reasonable for these two to play such a performance given their strength.
However, the performance of other players on the Bulls team was very unexpected, especially Paul, who was signed by the Cavaliers for 16 million over 2 years and 1.27 million for 1 year in the summer. Gasol and Hassan Whiteside are the best.
Everyone thought that the athletic condition of 34-year-old Gasol must have deteriorated, but no one expected that Gasol, who joined the Cavaliers, would regain the second spring of his career and become the main scorer of the Cavaliers' interior offense.
By the end of December, Pau Gasol averaged 18 points, 9 rebounds, and 3 assists per game with the Cavaliers, shooting 50% from the field, even when looking at the efficiency of interior players in the league.
You should know that Big Gasol's contract is only 16 million for 2 years, averaging 8 million per year, which is absolutely high quality and cheap, and the cost performance skyrockets! But Pau Gasol is not the best value for money, because the Cavaliers also have a base salary player in Whiteside.
Although Whiteside is completely unable to compare to Pau Gasol on the offensive end, averaging only around 8 points per game, Whiteside still has 9.4 rebounds and 2.5 blocks.
As a player with a base salary, these stats are simply cost-effective, and you cannot find a second one throughout the league.
The result of the fact is that in the summer, the Cavaliers spent less than 10 million to acquire two main players who averaged 26 points, 18 rebounds, 4 assists, and 4 blocks per game.
Comparing with Howard, who has an annual salary of over 20 million and averaged only 17 points and 10 rebounds per game this season due to injury, it's not too impressive.
If back in the Bulls' time it was unclear where the luck of the Bulls came from when selecting the best players each year, now with the Cavaliers, the same situation is occurring as with the Bulls, and anyone can understand who all this can be attributed to.
In addition to the two main starters, Pau Gasol and Whiteside, the performance of the Cavaliers' bench players is also noteworthy. The Cavaliers fans were delighted with their team's perfect record, and everyone in the Cavaliers was equally happy, especially Paul, Gasol, and Whiteside. As long as they can continue their current performances this season, they will definitely receive a big contract next season.
Whiteside signed with a one-year salary and will be a free agent at the end of the season, while Pau Gasol signed the same 1+1 contract as Wang Chong, and he can also choose to opt out of the contract and become a free agent after the season.
Speaking of which, the only one on the entire Cavaliers team who did not meet expectations was the champion Andrew Wiggins.
As the NBA champion in 2014, Wiggins was also the highly anticipated Chosen One when he entered the draft, but after the Cavaliers became the main starter, he became a bit transparent.
On the court, his brilliance
is not as good as Wang Chong's and not as bright as Gasol's.
Of course, Wiggins's talent is still there after all; although his performance is a bit ordinary, he also averages 14 points, 4 rebounds, and 2 assists per game, and because Wang Chong made a plan for Wiggins's positioning early on, Wiggins's current responsibilities in the Cavaliers are similar to Butler's in the Bulls, responsible for offensive scoring while also being the team's defensive elite on the outside.
With his small forward height and wingspan, along with outstanding athleticism, he can basically suppress the vast majority of opposing opponents at the point guard position, integrating offense and defense, and not holding back the Cavaliers.
The reason the evaluation is average is mainly because he is the NBA champion, and this performance is a bit cheap, but if you want to compare, Wiggins's performance can at least shake off the previous NBA champion, Anthony Bennett, by several streets.
As a result, the Cavaliers' five starting positions could not find any faults, aside from Luis Williams and Tristan Thompson on the bench. At least in terms of overall combat effectiveness shown so far, you cannot find a team in the league that can compete with them, not even the Bulls.
As January begins, the Cavaliers' good momentum has cooled down a bit.
After all, the team has Paul Gasol, a veteran, and a glass man like Irving. Wang Chong is still more cautious when it comes to hiring people, although due to James, the league has thoroughly investigated the rotation of players without injuries, but as long as the mind doesn't slip, there are always more ways than problems.
As you don't have to take a break, you can also reduce the playing time of the players.
Whenever the Bulls suffer from consecutive away games or problematic matches, both Paul Gasol and Irving will have fewer minutes on the court.
Although this move will slightly reduce the stats of the two, after all, it will only be the case in consecutive away games, so the impact is not too great, and both have substitutes; Irving can have Luis Williams replace him, while Pau can have Tristan Thompson come off the bench.
In this case, the Bulls achieved a record of 14-3 in 17 games in January, with a winning percentage of 82%, which is 10 percentage points lower than before, but it does not affect the team's record of leading the league.
As the January schedule comes to an end, so does the All-Star Game poll.
James made a comeback and surpassed Kevin Durant in the voting. However, in the last two rounds of voting, Curry's fans also began to flex their muscles, and their combat effectiveness was good. James's previous embarrassing behavior still caused him to lose a lot of popularity, so in the end, James only got third place in the All-Star voting.
Wang Chong and Curry won the first and second All-Star votes respectively, but since the league adopted Wang Chong's plan and also considered that they could not completely abandon the characteristics of the East and West, they still opted to choose the voting kings of the East and West as captains.
Wang Chong became the king of votes in the East, while the king of votes in the West ranked fifth in the total number of votes, below Wang Chong, Curry, James, and Durant in the East. Davis.
The All-Star Voting King in the West is actually a third-year player, which shows how much the stars in the West have diminished.
Curry, who was supposed to be in the West, Durant went to the East, and the veteran champion of the West, Kobe Bryant, was ruled out for the season due to injury, and the West really couldn't find a superstar to support the facade.
The five All-Star starters in the East were Curry, Irving, James, Durant, and Wang Chong.
Irving finally stood out among the crowd of competitors, surpassing a group of competitors that included Rose, Wade, Wall, and others to claim a spot in the starting lineup.
As for Wang Chong, as long as James and Durant are in the East, it will be difficult for anyone to shake their starting positions.
The five All-Star starters in the West are Westbrook, James Harden, Blake Griffin, Anthony Davis, and Tim Duncan.
At the age of 38, Duncan was once again selected as an All-Star starter, partly due to the tireless voting results of his die-hard fans, and on the other hand, it is true that there are not many competitive stars in the West who can garner more votes than Duncan.
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